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    TikTok's news audience has stopped growing as Facebook and Nextdoor pull younger users back to local content
    October 21, 2026
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    Lucy Hall
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    TikTok's news audience has stopped growing as Facebook and Nextdoor pull younger users back to local content

    TikTok's share of Americans who get news on the platform stayed flat at 20% in 2026, while its core 18 to 29 demographic dropped four percentage points. The shift exposes a plateau brands should have seen coming and signals a broader realignment towards proximity over virality.

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    YouTube now edges TV for US political news, forcing brands to rethink issue-led content distribution
    October 20, 2026
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    YouTube now edges TV for US political news, forcing brands to rethink issue-led content distribution

    Syracuse University research finds YouTube has narrowly overtaken television as Americans' primary source for political news, a shift that requires social teams to reconsider where they place advocacy and values-based content in the final weeks before an election.

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